Please Sign in to the right. I am a new customer Don't have an account? Register by answering a few simple questions. Find a dealer within reach. Visit a Hickory Chair Furniture Co. showroom near you. Search for the Hickory dealer nearest you using theStore Locator to the right. find a designer or dealerJodi and MaryLou do a fabulous job at showing casing there store. There is something for everyone! Check it out -very unique items. Make sure you give yoursel Went to your open house today sent a hour walking around looking and buying .Very nice and friendly .Great prices and unique gifts .Vintage Nautical home Deco Rogers & Gray Insurance Agency Plymouth Sign Company, Inc. RBC Dain Rauscher (Osterville) The Cape's Finest Businesses are at your Service.MASHPEE — On a Tuesday afternoon, sewing machines whir and scissors crunch as six women tear through layers of fabric, making designer dresses, shirts, and jackets. But this workshop is far from the modern centers of clothing manufacturing in Asia and Africa;
it’s in a small, nondescript shopping plaza in Mashpee in the summer vacation hub of Cape Cod.Kathryn Hilderbrand, 46, a tailor all her adult life, was inspired to open her Good Clothing Co. after reading about the tragedy in Bangladesh in 2012, when 117 people were killed and more than 200 injured in a clothing factory fire. “Let’s face it, children and marginalized women make most of your clothes,” she said. Hilderbrand asked herself why clothes couldn’t be made here in Massachusetts. A natural networker, she consulted industry friends, who encouraged her to make the leap. She launched a small indiegogo campaign that raised $20,000 and attracted the attention of clothing collectives and others in the fashion industry. To date, more than 125 designers have expressed interest, many signing on to work with her. Thank you for signing up! Sign up for more newsletters here With mill town infrastructure, New England once dominated textile manufacturing. But when the Northeast became too expensive, jobs headed south and then overseas.
In the United States, the share of apparel consumption made in this country dropped from 50 percent in 1994 to 2.5 percent in 2012, according to the American Apparel and Footwear Association.Research firm Kurt Salmon predicts the pendulum will start to swing the other way and domestic apparel manufacturing will grow at an annual rate of 4 percent to 6 percent through 2017, “building on a small uptick in momentum that started post-recession and a growing demand for higher-quality, American-made products.” Hilderbrand said she can turn a profit by the end of the year while manufacturing in the United States by paying her workers piecework rates and bringing on more workers when production ramps up. Being a smaller shop, she can make clothing in runs as large as 500, though the typical range so far is 10 to 90 of a design in each size. New designers without a lot of capital like that her minimum order is much smaller than what the 250 or so that manufacturers in New York’s garment district or overseas will demand.
But the turnaround time — four to eight weeks — can be just as quick as those outlets.Good Clothing’s lower upfront costs mean less risk for designers, who can produce a wider range of styles and gauge customer response. And shipping costs, especially for small runs, are much cheaper.Good Clothing is working with a few local brands, from Chatham’s Fisherman’s Daughter, which makes custom women’s apparel, to Harwich-based Cape Cod Beach Chairs, which produces cloth-backed beach chairs. Pieces that Good Clothing Co. made are already for sale in Fisherman’s Daughter’s retail shop. Hilderbrand has also booked work with more far-flung companies, like Alchemy Detroit, which specializes in blazers, tees, and scarves, and La Fille Colette, a specialty clothing outfit out of Boston that launched last fall.Scott Nagle, principal of Brohaun, a Cape-based company specializing in board shorts and the fashions of surf and skate culture, is happy to be doing business locally. “We’re looking forward to working with a manufacturer so close,” said Nagle.
“I was not happy with samples I had received from China.” He is making beach chairs as well. Born in California, Hilderbrand has been a tailor since she was 16, working for other master tailors in Virginia Beach and on Cape Cod before moving to suburban Washington, D.C., in 2004 and starting her own tailoring business. After a few successful years, she was forced out of business when the recession hit. ‘We’re just stepping back and doing things the way they used to be done.’ She returned to Cape Cod in 2009, where her family was based, and began another tailoring company, called Stitched, as well as an online destination selling her own line of women’s casual clothing, Green Line by K, which uses mainly sustainable, natural, and organic materials and attracts a more conscientious consumer. It sells about 100 garments per month.Hilderbrand’s new venture has been up and running for only a few months, and she is deliberately taking it slow to avoid the pitfalls of overpromising and under delivering.
Her goal is to build a strong client base and prove that clothing manufacturing can once again thrive in the United States, and now on Cape Cod. “We’re just stepping back and doing things the way they used to be done,” Hilderbrand said.THE TALE OF THE SAIL Owning a Sea Bag is like carrying a story on your shoulder. These stories start with the sailors who bring us sails that make their way to our home on the working waterfront in Portland, Maine and continue with the many people who will touch each bag we create. We know this story well, but wanted to share it with everyone, so we created "The Tale Of The Sail" to tell it for us.Photo credit: Antiques Center of Yarmouth West Yarmouth, MA 02673 With over one hundred dealers, the Antiques Center of Yarmouth truly has a little bit of everything. Whether you’re looking for furniture, housewares or just looking to find that diamond in the rough, chances are good it’s sitting on one of the many tables at the Antique Center.
Sure, it’s a touch flea market-ish, but that just means there are deals to be found. More than anything, make sure you put aside a good block of time to explore the center. This is not the place to go for a quick browse. 422 W. Main St. If you love antiques but housewares and furniture isn’t on the agenda, Diamond Perfections is the leading antique jewelry dealer on the Cape. While the store has a solid reputation for contemporary custom jewelry, its collection of antique and estate pieces are where it really shines. The experience of the staff is unmatched. Diamond Perfections can help guide you towards that perfect piece that you’ve been dreaming about. Related: Boston’s Best Jewelry Stores If you love old things, you’ll fall in love with Wisteria Antiques before you even make it through the door. This lovingly restored lilac-colored Victorian calls to mind days gone by. Even better, it is packed with carefully selected pieces that you’ll die for. The boutique feels more like a very overstuffed home or well-curated museum than a store.
It contains everything from antique costume jewelry to oriental rugs, hand painted porcelain and art. It’s worth the trip if only to wander around the beautifully outfitted and serene rooms. Related: Best Vintage Stores South Of Boston Harwich Port, MA 02646 Windsong Antiques harkens back to a better time when quality, craftsmanship and exemplary customer service were the norm, not the exception. The shop maintains an always shifting but excellent collection of antique goods that are of the highest caliber. The shop has a wide selection of art glass, early English ceramics, postcards, sterling silver and much much more. The store is a second-generation, family-owned business that is more a labor of love than a simple shop. There’s nothing stuffy about this antique shop. Harwich Antique Center proclaims itself to be the place to go for “Odd, old, cool, and collectible” goods, and it achieves this aim 10 times over. If you’re looking for something truly unique, it is the place to go.